Words by June Hershey, music by Don Swander
Warnings: Sap, mild angst, WAFFiness
Pairings: 1x4/4x1, 2+1/1+2
[The stars at night are big and bright]
"Oh Heero," Quatre sighed, resting against the wooden frame of their porch. The desert sand sparkled in the moonlight, but even the wide orb was outshone by the glittering stars enfolded in a black blanket.
[Deep in the heart of Texas]
"Would you look at that?" Heero smiled as his lover exclaimed softly in Japanese, winding a bare arm around his shoulders. "It's so beautiful. You can't see the sky like this on a Colony."
He smiled. "But then, you'd already know that. You grew up on L-1, right?"
[The prairie sky is wide and high]
The Japanese boy paused. "Well, I didn't really have much time to go stargazing or anything. It never occurred to me that the sky I was looking at was really a plastic facsimile." He inhaled slowly, breathing in the scent of earth, sky, and water. "It's so open..." So different, he thought, but said nothing. So beautiful, his mind reflected, twisting what Quatre had said. Too bad you'll never have any peace like this.
[Deep in the heart of Texas]
"Open?" Quatre studied his quiet lover for a moment, switching to the language of Earth absently. His silence was so like Trowa's, and yet, not at all. "Yes, it's huge."
"No," said Heero, struggling with his poor English and his own closed feelings. It was a door and it was open, just a crack... "I mean, not sad. Not afraid of feeling. Open."
[The sage in bloom is like perfume]
Quatre wasn't sure what he meant, but he was touched by the effort he was making to explain it to him. He certainly hadn't made communicated that much with his first lover.
Speaking of whom...
[Deep in the heart of Texas]
"Yoohoo! Am I a little early for the 'reunion'?" His greeting rang out into the silence, sending several crows flapping away into the air. "You lovebirds decent?"
Heero growled, "If we weren't, you'd still poke your nose in anyway."
Duo grinned.
[Reminds me of the one I love]
"Got me there." Quatre noticed the way his eyes lingered over Heero's hand on his waist. Duo hesitated, then pressed on. "Can I talk to you for a minute, please?"
Quatre exchanged looks with Heero.
"Oh come on, don't do that! I'm not going to try and take him away from you or anything." Reluctantly, the Arabian disappeared inside the small house, just large enough for themselves and twenty more children.
[Deep in the heart of Texas]
"Hey." Duo folded his hands into his jeans pockets, whistling as he looked up at the velvet night. "Gorgeous night out."
"Yeah." Heero motioned for the American to sit beside him, frowning as he realized the other boy had grown taller.
[The coyotes wail along the trail]
The howl of a coyote split the air. "I guess I just wanted to check up on you," he began slowly.
"Check up on me? Why? I'm fine," said Heero, slightly bewildered.
[Deep in the heart of Texas]
He laughed. "I can see that. I guess..." Duo blushed. "I guess for a while I thought that you couldn't be happy without me. It was selfish, I know. But I just wanted to..." He stopped.
[The rabbits rush around the brush]
I understand, said Heero in his mind, but out loud he only whispered, "I'm fine, Duo."
[Deep in the heart of Texas]
"I know, I can see that. I know it's over between us." He did a good job of disguising the bitterness in his voice. Heero noticed that he didn't claim to be over him yet. It was only a childish love affair, he wanted to say. Don't let it ruin your life.
"Gorgeous night out," Heero finally said, unable to take the silence any longer.
"Yeah."
[The cowboys cry, "Ki-yip-pe-yi"]
"Are you happy?" Duo finally asked.
[Deep in the heart of Texas]
Heero smiled. He had known it was coming. "I am. Are you?"
"Don't try and change the subject," Duo warned gently. "Are you sure you want to be here?"
[The dogies bawl and bawl and bawl]
Heero looked beyond Duo's face to a slender blonde who leaned against the door, watching them, listening intently, and trying not to hope too much.
Duo's face fell. He didn't even see him. There was his answer.
[Deep in the heart of Texas]
"Wouldn't want to be anywhere else," Heero admitted. Duo nodded, smiling even as a single tear fell from curled coal-black lashes.
"I'm glad. Texas suits you." With that, he stood, yawning loudly to let Quatre know their talk was over. "I'm beat, I think I'll just turn in for the night." The Japanese boy nodded, his eyes already straying towards a blonde boy who stood waiting in the wings.
~owari~
Ariana and Bianca
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